Infographic illustration showing all the biomass of all life on Earth. One cube represents 1 million metric tons of carbon. The most dominant form of life on the planet are plants, weighing 450 gigatons of carbon (Gt C). The second largest are bacteria with 70 Gt C. By contrast, animals only make up 2.589 Gt C. This visualization is based on data by Bar-On et al, The Biomass Distribution on Earth, PNAS, 2018.